LEGO Nexo Knights haunted statues?

I was browsing LEGO’s Facebook page, and found a series of pictures of some strange statues. They are apparently related to the upgraded LEGO Nexo Knights: Merlok 2.0 app. I thought to share the images here as the artwork is pretty… let’s just say… unusual. 🙂

In the third season of the LEGO Nexo Knightsanimated series, the main badguy, Monstrux, turns into a storm cloud. According to LEGO’s description on Facebook, The Cloud of Monstrux is transforming statues all around the world to be part of his Stone Monster Army. I’m not sure if this statue-turning plot is also in the game, or it is just an excuse to release some cool artwork with haunted statues.

There are four statues in the series. The first one depicts a famous bronze sculpture from Italy, with a she-wolf nurturing the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus from the legend of the founding of Rome. The second picture is of the Bavaria Statue from Germany. Notice how the wreath in her raised hand was replaced by a LEGO Nexo Knights shield. The third statue is of a Chinese guardian lion, and the last statue is of The Little Mermaid from Denmark (also holding a LEGO Nexo Knights shield).

Again, I’m not sure why LEGO decided to add famous statues to advertise the LEGO Nexo Knights app, but maybe some of our readers who play the game regularly can shed some light on it. Nonetheless, the artwork is interesting. The pictures link to the LEGO Nexo Knights: Merlok 2.0 app page. And you can also check out the recently released sets related to the story at the LEGO Nexo Knights section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? Do you have any insights into why LEGO added these images of haunted statues? Have you been playing the game? How do you like it? And what do you think of the new storyline? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

The kids will be fine. After all, these are all public statues in real life anyone can see. My kids think the artwork is cool. Still, I’m surprized lego decided to choose these from all the statues they could have picked. They usually like to stay away from anything that could be controversial.

(Although I was too young at the time, and mostly remember it from the Euro cup six years later, when Denmark won after coming in as a reserve team, as Yugoslavia had collapsed into a state of civil war… Dang, already modern history…)

I’m actually not sure if these specific statues are in the game also, as I haven’t played the latest version. The idea is that Monstrux is bringing statues to life to join his army, but whether the Little Mermaid and the other ones pictured here are going to be part of his army, I don’t know. Maybe someone who plays regularly can confirm either way?

Although I could kinda enjoy the over-the-top wackiness, and my recently 6-year old nephew seemed to enjoy it. (I bought him two sets on sale, although his mother has them stored away currently for future occasions…)

That’s just an unsubstantiated rumor at this point. At least in my opinion the post would have been more appropriate for the Brickset forum rather than the main site. But I very much respect Huw, and it’s his website, so he can do as he likes. The summer sets were already displayed at the toy fairs. Pulling them now would require some huge apocalyptic reason. I think it is more likely that the summer sets would be the last wave, but we will see…

Yeah, I think the theme had a good run. I think a major mistake was that they released too many vehicles, making the whole series very similar to Ninjago. The castles were the best and most imaginative.